Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Big Government Squanders Your Money with Relish & Abandon

"The trouble with most folks
isn't so much their ignorance,
as knowing so many things
that ain't so."
-- Josh Billings

Big Government Squanders Your Money with Relish &
Abandon

The EPA Spent $5,000 on a Single Freakin’ Office
Chair… plus Hillary told us your taxes will go up again if she gets into office

While Bernie Sanders is busy picking out new furniture for his
THIRD HOME (because 23 types of deodorants is an atrocity, but three homes for
a politician, that’s socialism, duh), his followers are still pushing for
higher taxes. Because, of course,
they’ve yet to feel the tax-induced butthole clench after looking at a real
paystub.

Until then, we advise that they look at the EPA to get a small
taste of how Big Government manages money.They don’t manage – they squander
your money with relish and abandon!

“The agency,” Kristie Eshelman writes on the Generation
Opportunity blog, “spent $48.4 million on Herman Miller furniture alone. If
you’re unfamiliar with the furniture market, that’s about as high-end as you
can get. To put it in perspective, one Herman Miller chair cost $4,047.
Granted, it was nice chair -- it could swivel and tilt and had adjustable arms
-- but mine can do that too. Someone must have given a really good sales pitch.

"Perhaps the only furniture brand more expensive than
Herman Miller is Knoll. The EPA just couldn’t resist, shelling out $5 million
on Knoll designer furniture.

“And we can’t forget the pencil holder. While the average pencil
holder costs $10-20, the EPA was persuaded to $813 on theirs. I just hope it
looks better than the half-forgotten one that’s gathering dust in the supply
room of our office.”

Some poor American paid for that pencil holder with about a
month’s worth of hard work. Tell me again why we need to raise taxes?That’s what carpetbagger Shillary plans to do
[in the best Democratic/Socialist tradition] if she is elected [and she’ll
screw us some with another half-baked health plan] and if the American people
are foolish enough to entrust her with her with another security clearance…I
wonder how much cash they’ll rake in this time selling influence to foreign
governments?

Why American Jobs are Vanishing & We’re in Decline

Long ago in the Land of the Free, if you wanted to start a
saloon, you rented a space and started serving booze.

You didn’t have to go through years of petitioning a bunch
of bureaucrats for permits and licenses.

If you weren’t qualified or good enough at your job, your
reputation would suffer and you’d go out of business.

This is the way it used to be for just about every industry
and profession.

It wasn’t until 1889 that the US Supreme Court ruled in Dent v. West Virginia
that states had the right to impose “reasonable” certifications or licenses for
various professions.

At first, most states only licensed physicians, dentists,
and lawyers.

In fact, by 1920, only about 30 occupations in the US
required any sort of licensing.

By the 1950s, about 5% of US workers required a license to
perform his/her job.

Today that number has risen to 30%, and climbing.

Some of our modern examples are completely insane.

According to the Brookings Institute, the state of Nevada
requires 733 days of training and a $1,500 fee for a license... just to become
a tour guide.

Over in Michigan, it takes 1,460 days of education to become
an athletic trainer.

45 other states have license or certification requirements
for athletic trainers. All fifty states have licenses for barbers and
cosmetologists.

36 states require licenses for make-up artists. 34 states
license milk samplers. And a mere 33 states license auctioneers.

These license requirements continue to grow, along with the
overall level of rules and regulations in the Land of the Free.

Just this morning the US government published an extra 227
pages of rules, regulations, and proposals.

This happens every single business day in America.

Last week the government published over 2,000 pages of new
rules, many of which border on absurdity.

To give you an idea, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service
proposed a rule about minimum and maximum diameters of potatoes that are sold
in the State of Colorado.

Yes I’m serious.

This is the sort of madness that government bureaucrats
churn out on a daily basis: more rules, more licenses.

Needless to say, the more of these rules they create, the
more difficult it becomes for people and businesses to produce.

So it wasn’t exactly a big surprise when the US Labor
Department released statistics a few days ago showing that, for the third
straight quarter in a row, productivity in the Land of the Free declined.Obama’s
White House has churned out red tape like Frito Lay churns out snack chips and
it costs us jobs and higher prices and is choking the lifeblood out of our
national productivity and international competitiveness.

Hillary promises more of the same – Obama 2.0

A few simple ways to fight back…

1. Agorism:
“Agorism,” says Wikipedia, “is a libertarian social philosophy
that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are
voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner
with aspects of peaceful revolution. It was first proposed by libertarian
philosopher Samuel Edward Konkin III in 1975, with contributions partly by J.
Neil Schulman.”

Taking part in agorism is easy. Simple trade with
others freely and without government interference. Use cash or other
untraceable forms of payment.

In short, support your local black markets. Because, of course,
a “black market” is a free market.

2. Jury Nullification- Jury
nullification is truly one way the power can be returned to the people. Problem
is, few know what it is. And those who try to inform the masses out in public
or in the courtroom are often locked in cages.

In short, jury nullifiers have the ability to refuse to charge
someone for a victimless crime, no matter the law.

3. Private Security: Yesterday,
we talked about how you can keep yourself protected when you’re on the move.

Today, we invite you to take it a step further. Take
self-defense classes. Bone up on the latest research. (Target Focus Training
and ex-CIA
Officer Jason Hanson’s latest book are both good starts.) Eat healthy. Stay
in shape. As you know, when it comes down to it, the only thing between you and
a victim is your level of awareness and preparedness.

4. Homeschooling: Public schools have
failed our children. Not only that, but they’re filling their heads with all
kinds of crazy nonsense.

More and more, I’m meeting people who are catching onto this and
homeschooling their kids. Not only is this a good idea, it’s also a great
opportunity for educators to catch this trend and make it a business.

You could create courses for homeschoolers, offer to teach kids
in your community and even, if you’re feeling froggy, open up your own
micro-school.

We need liberty-minded educators for our kids. Do you fit the
bill?

5. Become a servant to your fellow human: Be
self-sufficient and cut all ties with the public sector. This one’s pretty
self-explanatory. But most people don’t truly understand why entrepreneurship
is so great -- and it’s not about making money.

Sure, making money is nice. It gives you freedom to do things
you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise. But what make entrepreneurship great,
really, is it’s about becoming a servant to mankind.

As I’ve
said for the past 25 years “We don’t need another election, We need another
revolution!”

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